Ever wonder how to START a NONPROFIT? Do you have a great idea for a NONPROFIT or NGO? Come join us for lunch and conversation with John (current Yale PhD student in sociology) and Jennifer Hartley about their experience founding and managing Pathways for Mutual respect (also http://www.pfmrinteract.org). Pathways for Mutual Respect is a non-profit organization aiming to cultivate peace by creating opportunities for the practice of mutual respect. Pathways for Mutual Respect's initiatives and projects include conferences and lectures, consulting services, foreign film screenings and discussions, and internship programs. Lunch Provided.

Join PHC for a special lunch with Dr. Khoshnood, a professor at the Yale School of Public Health. As an infectious disease epidemiologist, his primary research interests include the epidemiology, prevention and control of HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis among drug users, prisoners and other at risk populations in United States and in resource-poor countries.

Join Pi Beta Phi for an afternoon of Powderpuff Football to raise money for Yales Relay for Life. Teams of 8 girls will compete for a number of prizes including $100 gift certificate to Claires. All proceeds will go to the American Cancer Society and walk-ons are welcomed! Registration is $3 per person, $24 per team.

LBT (Lesbian - Bisexual - Trans) Women's Mixer at the Yale Club of NYC Meet 100's of smart women at Yale GALA's annual LBT women's event, in the beautiful Tap Room at the Yale Club of NYC. Last year 230 women attended this elegant & friendly evening.

Enjoy an open bar of beer, wine soda and juice -- and a bounteous buffet of hors d'oeuvres (including the 3' tall chocolate fountain) --while you mingle.  Cost is $40 cash at the door ($20 for students from any school; please bring student ID)
 

If you are not a Yale Club member, please RSVP to enter the Club. (No charge to RSVP): 

http://www.yalegala.org/Events/2011/YaleClubWomensMixer.html 


We invite alumni from Yale, the Ivy League, Seven Sisters, Stanford, NYU, Duke, UVA, Georgetown, Williams, Amherst, UCLA & their friends from any school for this spectacular evening!

Many THANKS to our Ivy Co-Hosts: FFR/Princeton BTGALA, HGLC (Harvard Gay & Lesbian Caucus), DGALA (Dartmouth), Brown TBGALA, NUGALA (Northwestern University), Penn GALA, Duke LGBT Network, Stanford Pride & CUGALA (Cornell) (list in formation) -- and to our host for the evening: Yale GALA (Yale University's LGBTQ Alumni organization)

More info & RSVP link: http://www.yalegala.org/Events/2011/YaleClubWomensMixer.html

PS. The Yale Club has a dress code of business casual or better.  Please no t-shirts, jeans, sneakers or shorts at the Yale Club.  Dress fabulously and you will have a great time.

NATIONAL PUBLIC HEATLH WEEK runs from April 1 to April 10!!!!! Come kick off the week at Yale University with performances by Mixed Company and Bakers Dozen in Dwight Hall! $3 admission, all proceeds will go to AIDS Walk New Haven.

 The purpose of the 2011 Human Rights in Academia conference at Yale University is to bring academics and practitioners together to discuss the importance of developing and expanding upon existing human rights programs and initiatives within academic institutions at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. The conference will be a forum for debating the place and importance of human rights studies in a global academic context. Advancing the status of human rights studies while generating energy, collaboration, and action is the larger objective of the conference.

Conference Participant List:   

Harlan Beckely (Washington and Lee University)  Director of The Shepherd Poverty Program.

Seyla Benhabib (Yale) Eugene Meyer Professor of Political Science and Philosophy.

Charlie Clements (Harvard) Executive Director of The Carr Center for Human Rights Policy.

Camille Crittenden (University of California at Berkeley) Executive Director of Human Rights Center.

Yasmine Ergas (Columbia) Director of The Institute for The Study of Human Rights.

Susan Gzesh (University of Chicago) Executive Director of Human Rights Program.

Susan Katz (University of San Francisco) Professor. Expert on International and Multicultural Education.

Thomas Keenan (Bard College) Director of Human Rights Program.

Joanne Mariner (Human Rights Watch) Director of Terrorism and Counterterrorism Program and (Hunter College, CUNY) Director of Human Rights Program.

Joseph Martin (Columbia) Director of Human Rights Studies at Barnard.

Timothy McCarthy (Harvard) Program Director of Human Rights and Social Movements.

Samuel Moyn (Columbia) Professor and Historian of Human Rights.

William Schulz (NYU). Former Executive Director of Amnesty International.

James Silk (Yale) Executive Director of The Schell Center for Human Rights, Yale Law School.

David Simon (Yale) Professor of Political Science.

Felisa Tibbitts (Harvard) Lecturer on Education and (HREA) Co-Founder of Human Rights Education Associates.

Terence Turner (Cornell University) Emeritus Professor of Anthropology. Indigenous Rights Expert.

Richard Wilson (UConn) Gladstein Chair of Human Rights, Director of Human Rights Institute at UConn. 

Jay Winter (Yale) Charles J. Stille Professor of History.  

Conference Schedule:

Description Time

Registration and Breakfast 9:00-9:20 am

Welcome 9:20-9:40 am

Introduction 9:40-10:00 am

Panel I 10:00-11:00 am

Discussion of Panel I 11:00-11:30 am

Panel II 11:30-12:30 pm

Discussion of Panel II 12:30-1:00 pm  

Lunch 1:00-2:00 pm

Panel III 2:00-3:00 pm

Discussion of Panel III 3:00-3:30 pm

Last Remarks/Wrap Up 3:30-4:00 pm

Reception 4:00 pm    

For More Information Visit: www.humanrightsinacademia.com  or Contact:  This email address is hidden from email harvesters via JavaScript  

Every Saturday in the Dwight Hall Common room, students are welcome to help volunteer with the Yale Children's Theater in the hands' on program from 10am - 2:30 pm. Please contact for more information. 

 Join Colleges Against Cancer anti-smoking event: karaoke on Old Campus!

With nothing but a mic and their powerful voices, New York Citys hottest teen spoken word poets will rant, rap and recite their OWN ORIGINAL WORK at the 13th Annual Urban Word NYC Teen Poetry Slam Finals on April 2^ndatHarlems World Famous Apollo Theater, in front of 1,500 fans and supporters. The Boys and Girls Choir of Harlem Alumni Ensemble & NYCs Youth Poet Laureate, Justin Long will also be featured, along with beats by DJ Reborn.

Panelists will discuss the 5-year MPH program, the Peace Corps, academia, and other public health related career options post-graduation.

Why I Survived While My Brothers Died: A Dialogue with International HIV/AIDS & TB Activist, Winstone Zulu Followed by a Call to Action: Tell your Senators "Budget Cuts Kill"

Why I Survived While My Brothers Died: A Dialogue with International HIV/AIDS & TB Activist, Winstone Zulu

Followed by a Call to Action: Tell your Senators "Budget Cuts Kill"

Winstone Zulu is one of Africas most dynamic AIDS activists. After testing positive in 1990, Zulu has become a fierce advocate for those living with the stigma of being HIV positive, and works to raise HIV/TB co-infection awareness. Co-hosted by the Yale Global Health Leadership Institute, RESULTS and Student Global Health & AIDS Coalition. Lunch will be provided.

 Call local government officials to raise funding for HIV/AIDS. Co-hosted by the Student Global Health & AIDS Coalition.

 A talk by Dara Lipton, a graduate student in International Relations. She will talk about the representations of public health and art.

Each year in the United States, we throw away 96 billion pounds of food.  That's 263 million pounds per year, 11 million pounds per hour, 3 thousand pounds per second.  LET'S TALK ABOUT IT on Tuesday, April 5 from 7:00-8:30 pm in HGS 119.  Join us for a screening of DIVE!, a documentary on dumpster diving and waste in the U.S., followed by a panel discussion with Sharon Smith, FES '12 (Author of "The Young People's Guide to Building a Green Movement"), Emily Brooks (Founder of Edibles Advocate Alliance), and Lucy Nolan (Executive Director of End Hunger Connecticut!).  Refreshments will be provided by Blue State Coffee. Sponsored by the McDougal Center for Graduate Student Life, the Public Health Coalition, Yale Environmental Law Association, Yale Student Environmental Coalition, Social Justice Network, Challah for Hunger, Yale Hunger and Homelessness Project, and Environmental Justice at Yale.

 Volunteer at an event designed to bring inner city youth and Special Olympics Connecticut athletes together to compete with and against each other on the basketball court and in track & field. Co-hosted by Yale Special Olympics.

The College Council for CARE and the Chubb Fellowship present Nicholas Kristof, a Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist for the New York Times and author of "Half the Sky: From Oppression to Opportunity for Women Worldwide." His columns often focus on global health and poverty, he has relentlessly brought attention to the crisis in Darfur, and he has also had much experience covering China.

Yale GALA and YAAMNY are pleased to announce an exciting new community service opportunity for LGBT alumni and friends. Partnering with New Alternatives, a nonprofit organization that provides support services to New York City's LGBT homeless youth out of the Middle Collegiate Church in the East Village, LGBT Yale alumni/ae and allies will be staffing drop-in hours on Tuesday nights to help youth in subject tutoring, writing help, GED preparation, SAT tutoring, resume building, and college applications. 

 The Yale-Ecuador HIV Clinic Initiative is setting up an HIV program in a hospital in the coastal town of Maglaralto, Ecuador.  Join them for an info session on their latest trip to Ecuador and find out how you can get involved!

 A talk by Dawn Sweeny, President and Chief Executive Officer, National Restaurant Association. Hosted by the Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity.

 Join PHC for a talk by Professor of Public Health Betsy Bradley on the core principles for hte development and implementation of grand strategy in addressing common global health problems.

Students from other universities who will be attending the Unite For Sight Global Health and Innovation Conference are looking for Yale students to host them during the weekend of April 16th and 17th.  Please contact Catherine Thomas ( This email address is hidden from email harvesters via JavaScript ) if you would be willing to donate some futon or floor space!  

 Join PHC for a special lunch with Mandisa Mbali, a postdoctoral associate in History of Science, History of Medicine.  She has just completed her dissertation entitled, 'The New Struggle': A History of AIDS Activism in South Africa, 1982-2003. In addition to an ongoing research focus on the history of AIDS activism in Southern Africa, Mbali is also investigating the political history of health activism, public health policy and ethics, migration and health and the politics of gender and sexuality in the region.

 A panel discussion on overcoming cancer and life after recovery. Co-hosted by Colleges Against Cancer and the Womens Leadership Initiative.

 Join in for either a 3 mile or 5 mile run! Co-hosted by Yale Road Running. Free Cliff Bars!

Always wanted to give back to society while balancing a successful and profitable career?   ....Then come hear alumni speak about their rewarding experiences in the non-profit and public service sectors!  

Dust off your cookbooks and think of options - its time to participate in the YHHAP Fast, and give up dining hall swipes so that folk in New Haven can get the food they need, while you let your culinary creativity go wild or explore New Haven's local restaurants.

 An opportunity to volunteer at Leeway, CTs only residential facility for people with HIV/AIDS. Contact Jackie Outka for more information at This email address is hidden from email harvesters via JavaScript

Mark you calendars and call your friends!  Friday night, April 8th, the Yale Glee Club's 150th Anniversary Gala Concert will be celebrated at Carnegie Hall.  Jeffrey Douma, Musical Director for the YGC, will conduct a capella works, treat us to a New York musical debut, include traditional Yale favorites, and even more.  Joining the Glee Club will be the Yale Symphony Orchestra, under Musical Director Toshiyuki Shimada .  All tickets are only $20. 

Purchase your tickets and view all concert details today:

The Yale Glee Club   www.yalegleeclub.org   203-432-4136

Carnegie Hall   www.carnegiehall.org   CarnegieCharge 212-247-7800  Box Office at 57th Street and 7th Avenue

Proceeds from this performance will benefit Yale College arts programs.

See you there!!

Speak Truth to Power: Voices from Beyond the Dark is a play that chronicles the experiences of 42 human rights defenders from countries as diverse as Mexico, Burma, India, and the United States. Eight voices act as channels for these activists, sharing their stories of bravery, determination, and integrity while struggling to overcome repressive powers, apathy, and the deadly force of doubt. The play was written by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Ariel Dorfman under the auspices of the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human RIghts. 

Every Saturday in the Dwight Hall Common room, students are welcome to help volunteer with the Yale Children's Theater in the hands' on program from 10am - 2:30 pm. Please contact for more information. 

Friends of EdgewoodPark

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March 30, 2011

Dear Dwight Hall,

I am Stephanie FitzGerald, Secretary for the Friends of Edgewood Park, an advocacy group for EdgewoodPark in New Haven.

We are sponsoring a clean up next Saturday, April 9 and Sunday, April 10 in the park from 10:00 am until noon.  Residents who live near the park will be helping to clean up.  We will supply gloves, bags, rakes and light refreshments.

We would like to invite your group to join us.

On Saturday, we will meet at the Ranger Station near Edgewood Ave. and Hobart St.  On Sunday, we will meet at the Farmers Market near West Rock Ave. and

If you plan to participate please let us know by emailing or calling us (203 776-6122)

I hope to meet some of you next weekend.

Stephanie FitzGerald

The Friends of Edgewood Park are sponsoring a park clean up on Saturday, April 9, from 10 am until noon.  Participants will meet at the Ranger Station located near Edgewood Ave. and Hobart St. Groups, individuals and families are invited.  Gloves, bags and rakes will be provided. 

  Join us for the launch of New Havens first street newspaper: The Elm City Echo

 Join Yogis at Yale for a session - all levels are welcomed! Mats will be provided, but please bring your own if you have one.

The American Red Cross at Yale is hosting a: Japan Relief Benefit Event

Groups that are performing: Shades, The Spizzwinks(?), Fifth Humour, Red Hot Poker, Just Add Water, Danceworks, Anjali, Something Extra, Sur et Veritaal- Yale's 1st Hindi a cappella Group
Admission by donation of $5 or more, all proceeds go to the American Red Cross Disaster Relief Fund

Friends of Edgewood Park are sponsoring a park clean up on Sunday, April 10 near the Farmers' Market.  Gloves, bags, and rakes are provided.  Groups, individuals, and families are welcome.

 Walk to support victims of HIV/AIDS. Registration begins at 1 PM at the New Haven Green and the walk starts at 2.30 PM. 

Come to the Global Health Seminar Series Talk. This Monday, Peter Lamptey, President of Public Health and Development Programs at Family Health International, will lecture on Expanding the Boundaries of HIV Prevention, Care, and Treatment Programs.

Peter Lamptey received his MD from the University of Ghana, MPH from University of California, Los Angeles and DPH from Harvard School of Public Health. Lamptey began his public health career as a district medical officer in Ghana in which capacity he provided preventive and clinical health services for 200,000 people. He was also involved in the USAID-funded Danfa Comprehensive Rural Health Family Planning Project. He then went on to direct two more USAID-funded projects implemented by Family Health International (FHI): AIDSTECH and AIDSCAP. AIDS Prevention and Control Project (AIDSCAP) is the worlds largest AIDS prevention program comprising 800 projects in 50 countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean. Lamptey then directed the ten-year Implementing AIDS Prevention and Care (IMPACT) Project with programs in Africa, Asian, Latin America, the Caribbean, Eastern Europe and the Middle East. He was instrumental in collaborating with the World Bank on the China Health IX HIV/AIDS Project. He formerly chaired Monitoring the AIDS Pandemic (MAP) Network, the Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights at the Harvard School of Public Health, and the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS). 

  It's difficult to imagine a more fundamental right than the right of an employee to be paid for his or her work. Yet this fundamental right is violated in New Haven's low-wage industries on a regular basis. 

Research from the National Employment Law Project concludes that a fifth of low-wage workers in American cities are paid less than the minimum wage in a given week. In the United States ever year, between two and three million workers are paid less than the minimum wage. The Economic Policy Foundation, a business- funded think tank, estimated that companies annually steal 19 billion dollars in unpaid overtime.


Find out what activists are doing to change exploitation in New Haven's restaurants, and find out how YOU can get involved!

Meet grassroots immigrants rights and worker's rights activists from Unidad Latina en Acción and New Haven Worker's Association. Learn about their Fair Restaurants campaign and get involved!

**Sponsored by MEChA de Yale, Unidad Latina en Acción, New Haven Worker's Association, Undergraduate Organizing Committee.

1.4 billion people on our planet live in extreme poverty. 1.4 Billion Reasons is a thought provoking presentation based on leading research on what really works in ending extreme poverty. It discusses some of the realities of extreme poverty and communicates what can be done about it by everyday people. Be inspired to learn how you can make a difference and enable the world's poorest to break the poverty cycle.

Black Lake is an art/music duo with Susan Jennings (BK '86) and Slink Moss.  Their performances combine video art (by Susan Jennings), original music and lyrics, movement, sculpture, spoken word, percussion and shadows.  With fine art backgrounds, the duo is as much art as music. They often perform in galleries and museums. Some recent peformances have occured at  Freight+Volume Gallery in Chelsea, The RISD Art Museum, X-Initiative, The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts and 179 Canal. 

Slink Moss- vocals, electric guitar, spoken word, percussion

Susan Jennings, video art, electric guitar, percussion, vocals

Airport Seven with the painter Steve DiBenedetto on drums joined by Kevin Jones and John Terhorst will open for Black Lake.

http://www.thetanknyc.org/music

http://www.blacklakeart.com

World Micro-Market seeks to economically and socially empower disadvantaged artisan groups in developing countries both by providing them access to more profitable markets on university campuses and services for business development and by advocating fair trade and socially-responsible consumerism. We will be selling products ranging from coffee and chocolate to hand-woven belts and purses. Be a socially responsible consumer and encourage your family to take home a meaningful souvenir from Yale!

 Dr. Niklason is one of the world's leading tissue engineers, and among the most accomplished professors at Yale. We invite you to come get to know her at the first Biomedical Society Faculty Lunch. Come learn about her research, her background, and the exciting field of tissue engineering. 

By the Biomedical Engineering Society

The Yale women's lacrosse team plays at Columbia.

  Do you think the 90s were the best decade of all time?

Get ready to prove how RAD you are @...

90s TRIVIA NIGHT Presented by Nourish International

Friday, April 15^th 2011

7-9pm

Blue State Coffee on Wall Street

$20 entrance fee (per team)

In order to reserve your spot, visit our website at www.yale.edu/nourish

 In your message, let us know your team name and the number of people participating!

SIGN UP EARLY BECAUSE SPOTS ARE GOING FAST!

All proceeds will support our medical clinic construction project in the Moche Valley of Peru!

Every Saturday in the Dwight Hall Common room, students are welcome to help volunteer with the Yale Children's Theater in the hands' on program from 10am - 2:30 pm. Please contact for more information. 

Need a worthwhile project in April to get you in the mood for participating in the Yale Day of Service?

The Public Service/Social Justice Committee of YAANY is looking for 15 volunteers to help serve food & drinks to approximately 700 patrons and to assist in the cleaning process.

We are pleased to have Tamara Mack-Lowe serve as Team Leader for this site.  For more info, please contact Tamara Mack-Lowe at This email address is hidden from email harvesters via JavaScript This email address is hidden from email harvesters via JavaScript

This site is usually very popular and fills quickly, so please act accordingly!

In recognition of the impact her courageous battle with cancer has had on efforts to save lives through marrow donor registry drives, the Yale athletic department has named its annual drive in memory of women's ice hockey player Mandi Schwartz (Wilcox, Sask.). The Mandi Schwartz Marrow Donor Registry Drive at Yale, which is part of the nationwide "Get in the Game. Save a Life." campaign for the Be The Match Registry®, will be held on Thursday, Apr. 21 from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. this year. The drive, which takes place at Commons on the corner of College Street and Grove Street in New Haven, is open to the general public. Food will be served.

The Yale athletic department has held drives each of the past two springs, ever since Mandi was first diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia in December of 2008. Yale's record-setting drives have added more than 1,600 potential donors to the Be The Match Registry®, and at least five life-saving genetic matches for patients in need have been located through the Bulldogs' efforts. That includes Yale sophomore field hockey player Lexy Adams (Lancaster, Pa.), who donated stem cells to help save the life of a patient with cancer this past December.

Every year, thousands of people of all ages are diagnosed with leukemia and other life-threatening diseases. Many of them will die unless they get a bone marrow or umbilical cord blood transplant from a matching donor. Seventy percent of people do not have a donor in their family and depend on the Be The Match Registry^® to find a genetic match to save their life. Donors are located through testing that consists of simple cheek swabs.

Yale's drives have been led by the football team and women's ice hockey team each of the first two years. This year, the field hockey team is also assisting with the drive. Members of all three teams are spreading the word about the need for donors to their friends, classmates and relatives. On the day of the drive, they will volunteer at the various stations set up to assist potential donors with the registration process.

Mandi's story has been one of the driving forces behind the success of the Yale drives. This past September she required a stem cell transplant, performed at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, that was designed to give her a new immune system using stem cells from two anonymously donated units of umbilical cord blood. A biopsy in December indicated that she had relapsed, and she passed away on Apr. 3. Her younger brothers, Jaden and Rylan, play for Colorado College. Jaden was a first-round draft pick of the NHL's St. Louis Blues last summer.

In addition to the three Yale teams, the drive is also scheduled to include appearances by Yale's live bulldog mascot, Handsome Dan, and Yale's costumed mascot, Boola.

To join the Be The Match Registry®, a person must be between the ages of 18 and 60, meet certain health guidelines and be willing to donate to any patient in need. The donor test consists of simple cheek swabs and will only take approximately 15 minutes.

Those who registered at previous drives are already in the registry, so there is no need for them to be registered again. Yale is seeking to add as many NEW potential donors as possible, so those who registered at previous drives are asked to find friends who have not registered and encourage them to take part in this year's drive.

The "Get in the Game. Save a Life." program started in 1992 at Villanova under the guidance of head football coach Andy Talley and has resulted in more than 20,000 potential donors being tested. Larry Ciotti, a long-time assistant coach at Yale, is a friend of Talley's and brought the idea to Tom Williams, Yale's Joel E. Smilow '54 Head Coach of Football.

Talley recently partnered with the Be The Match Registry® to take his efforts to the national level. He has received commitments from dozens of college football programs. In each of the past two years, Yale has registered more potential donors than any other school in the program. That included 704 registrants in 2009 and 921 registrants in 2010.

There are now more than nine million people and nearly 145,000 umbilical cord blood units in the Be The Match Registry®. Since the registry began operations in 1987, it has facilitated more than 43,000 transplants to give patients a second chance at life. Today, it facilitates more than 5,200 transplants a year.

Those interested in helping with the Mandi Schwartz Marrow Donor Registry Drive at Yale can contact Larry Ciotti with the Yale football team at This email address is hidden from email harvesters via JavaScript This email address is hidden from email harvesters via JavaScript or (203) 671-9805.

Mandi Schwartz Marrow Donor Registry Drive at Yale:

• Directions to Yale University's Commons
• Facebook event page: http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/event.php?eid=181897738521981
• 2010 Drive:
  Bulldogs Do It Again! More than 900 Register for Life-Saving Marrow Donor Test, Setting Another Record
• 2009 Drive:
  Marrow Donor Testing Drive a Huge Success; Estimates Put Record-Breaking Participation at More than 700

Be The Match Registry®:

• Be The Match Registry® page: http://www.bethematchfoundation.org/goto/mandi
• Be The Match Registry® Website: www.bethematch.org
• Myths and facts about marrow donation: http://www.marrow.org/JOIN/Myths_%26_Facts_about_Marrow_Don/index.html
• Medical Guidelines for Potential Donors: http://www.marrow.org/JOIN/Med_Guidelines_Join/index.html

Mandi Schwartz:

• AOL News: Yale Athlete's Plight Gives Another Chance to Save Life

"The Last Survivor is an award-winning documentary film, which follows the lives of survivors of four different genocides and mass atrocities as they struggle to make sense of tragedy.  A Q&A with the film's director Michael Kleiman will follow the screening. Sponsored by: Genocide Action Project, New Haven Alliance for the Congo, Yale Refugee Project and the Slifka Center

  UAID is hosting an HIV/AIDS Symposium titled "HIV/AIDS Symposium: 30 Year Flashback and Flashforward" at Yale University April 22-24, 2011. Contact Sonia Gupta at This email address is hidden from email harvesters via JavaScript for the schedule of events and other information. 

Every Saturday in the Dwight Hall Common room, students are welcome to help volunteer with the Yale Children's Theater in the hands' on program from 10am - 2:30 pm. Please contact for more information. 

Call for Proposals: Impact: Global Poverty

Academics Stand Against Poverty Launch Conference at Yale (April 23^rd, 11am-6pm)

We invite you to submit your proposal for a project aimed at reducing world poverty.

Selected proposals will receive a slot in the upcoming conference and be carried out with the support of the Academics Stand Against Poverty network and organization.

Background: Academics Stand Against Poverty, or ASAP, is a new organization in which academics collaborate in order to have a greater impact on issues of global poverty. Its aim is to help academics leverage their expertise on such issues by making effective interventions in public debates, by supporting good work by international agencies and non-governmental organizations, and by launching real-world projects aimed at realizing positive change. For more information go to: www.yale.edu/macmillan/globaljustice/ASAP.html

The conference: On April 23^rd we will hold our launch conference at Yale University. In the conference we will present two ongoing projects, "Health Impact Fund" and "Climate Voices", and discuss selected proposals for new ASAP projects. The discussion will be led by a panel of leading academic activists who will pass their experience and insight to the new ASAP project leaders.

Call for proposals: This is an open call for contributions of up to 1,500 words outlining a project proposal that academics might initiate with good prospects of reducing world poverty. Your project proposal should clearly describe the real-world change the project aims for and the effects this change would have on global poverty. It should also describe the academic and political efforts through which a suitably composed group of academics could achieve the envisioned change.

 All proposals are due by April 7^th.

Becoming an ASAP project means benefitting from the support of the international ASAP  network, having a page on the website and being able to raise funds through our non-profit organization.

All those, including faculty, graduate or undergraduate students, working on aspects of global poverty, global justice and related issues are invited to submit proposals and attend the meeting. You need not submit a proposal to attend, and broad participation will be encouraged

To submit a draft proposal, or if you have any questions, please contact: Gilad Tanay (Yale University, Philosophy Department)   This email address is hidden from email harvesters via JavaScript This email address is hidden from email harvesters via JavaScript

Examples of proposals or efforts underway:

1.      Giving What We Can (Toby Ord, Oxford University): http://www.givingwhatwecan.org/

2.      Clean Trade in Natural Resources (Leif Wenar, Kings College, London) http://cleantrade.org/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderfiles/clean_trade_brief_9-10.pdf

3.      Health Impact Fund (Thomas Pogge, Yale University) http://www.yale.edu/macmillan/igh/

On Camera Workshop for the Actor

Please email us at This email address is hidden from email harvesters via JavaScript if interested

The workshop is designed strictly to hone your acting skills for the camera.

With that goal in mind, we provide instant feedback of your recorded performance. Additionally, you walk with a DVD of your work from the current session. You will also be taught the basics of camera work, framing and composition.

We'll be using small pro camcorders. They're easier to use, and I've found that newbie camera ops are more able to achieve good composition with them than with the studio rigs. They allow the camera ops (often you when you're not acting) to reframe and compensate for actors' movements during a scene.

During each scene, each camera is recorded in its entirety without switching so all of your performance will be on your DVD. When played back immediately after the scene is shot, both actors will be seen on separate side by side screens. The other actors present in the workshop watch as you perform. They view your performance two ways, live and/or the live pictures from the cameras on the monitors.

Once you see your work, you'll perform again later in the evening or immediately after incorporating whatever changes you wish to make in your performance. Sometimes other participants may offer constructive comments about your work.  Depending on the number of participants, it's possible for you to do your scene several times in one evening.

All of your work will be on your DVD for you to study later or to share with other professionals you know to get their opinions on it.  Scenes should be short - around three minutes - sometimes up to five minutes but short is good.

I want to get a group of up to 20 who'll take part when they can. Out of that 20, we might get 6 to 8 per session. We need at least four participants in any session.  Two will shoot and two will perform and then switch. Those who have performed could become camera operators or watch the monitors as others perform. There's a lot to be learned in watching others act. The short comments after scenes are played back should also be a learning experience for all participants.  If you are participating in the workshop, you'll be expected to be in for the three hour session. Please don't expect to show up just to do your scene and then leave.

Here are some answers to the many questions Ive been receiving:

The address is:

Otterson TV

251 West 30th Street

Suite 14W

NYC   10001

It currently takes place on Tuesdays at 7PM.

The workshop is set-up for scenes for two character.  You will be expected to be off book.  Those that aren't will be expected to learn their lines by the following week.

Some of our screenwriters have scenes they would like to see performed and videotaped.  Well put you in touch. 

If you bring a monologue, you'll get one run through of it.

You'll be expected to participate for the 2 ½ to 3 hours of the workshop.

You will be given basic instruction in camera operation and are expected to run a camera at times during the workshop.

You will be given a DVD of you work at the end of each session.

You will do your scene and then it will be played back on side by side monitors.  You will be seen on one and your scene partner will be on the other.  The monitors will be arranged in such a way that you and your scene partner will be facing each other.

That's why I want simple blocking at the beginning.  If you want to sit, that is fine.

Keep you scenes under 5 minutes.

Those who have brought scenes for two characters and are off book will always be given preference.  It is possible for you to run your 2 character scene several times and try it different ways.

Well often have screenwriters and filmmakers working with us who will be looking to cast their projects.

The address is:

Otterson TV

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SD#2: Multi-school Speed Dating evening on Tuesday, April 26!  (Early registration ends Sunday, April 17)

Come mingle with accomplished fellow alumni/ae at our multi-school event in the swanky Ardesia Wine Bar in midtown west.  Yalies, MIT, Princeton and West Point graduates and their friends, including alumni from other Ivy League schools will be participating. 

You'll get up to *15* mini dates with singles all in one evening and a clear indication thereafter of whether or not the persons you met might be interested. 

Recommended ages: 30s to 40s. Included: complimentary hors d'oeuvres, glass of champagne and special door prizes for attendees

Register at:

Men: http://menspeeddatingapril26.eventbrite.com    (A few tickets for men are still available)

Women: http://womenspeeddatingapril26.eventbrite.com   (Please join the waitlist)

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Join in the fight against HIV/AIDS on Thursday April 28, 2011 by dining at Pacifico and 25% of your bill will be donated to AIDS Project New Haven.  Dining Out For Life® is an annual fundraising event involving the generous participation of volunteers, corporate sponsors and restaurants. In 1991, Dining OutFor Life® was created by an ActionAIDS volunteer in Philadelphia. Dining Out is now produced in over 55 cities throughout the United States and Canada.

More than 3,500 restaurants donate a portion of their proceeds from this one special night of dining to the licensed agency in their city. Nearly $4 million dollars a year is raised to support the missions of agencies throughout North America. With the exception of the annual licensing fee of $1,000, all money raised in these cities stays there.

Everyone has been touched by somebody who has been affected by HIV/AIDS.  In fact, nearly 7,500 new cases of HIV infections are reported worldwide each day. In the U.S. alone, someone is infected with HIV every nine and a half minutes. A significant fundraiser since 1990, Dining Out for Life offers a meaningful way to support a worthy cause that suffers from lack of funding. On a single day, nearly $4 Million is raised in the struggle against HIV/AIDS.

Once upon a time there lived... 'a king!' my little readers will say immediately. No children, you are mistaken. Once upon a time there lived a piece of wood.
Carlo Collodi, The Adventures of Pinocchio

THE ASSASSINS CHASE PINOCCHIO
a work from Immediate Medium
conceived by Max Dana

Witness Pinocchio's dramatic escape from the belly of the asthmatic shark! Listen in astonishment as the beautiful blue child with the blue hair lectures him on his questionable life choices! Gaze in amazement upon the wonders of the Land of Crazy Sweet Candy Chaos!

Immediate Medium's re-imagining of Collodi's original 1883 text is definitely not your grandmother's Pinocchio. A psychedelic mashup of original music, projections, live video compositing, masks, found objects and Italianate gibberish, The Assassins Chase Pinocchio fractures the storytelling tradition into an immersive multimedia experience for all! 

Appropriate for children ages 4, 24, 34 and 104. 
And probably ages in between.

The Assassins Chase Pinocchio is the third in IM's recent series of literary adaptations that includes Chuck. Chuck. Chuck. (2009), an examination of Faulkner's As I Lay Dying, and Doesn't Everybody Do It In Paris? (2010), a dance theater work exploring Flaubert's Madame Bovary. Reviewers called these productions thrilling and relentless (The Village Voice), a rich fusion of live and recorded sounds and images (Backstage) and a poetry of performance" (theateronline.com).

Press Previews - Wednesday, April 27 and Thursday, April 28 at 8pm
Opening Night - Friday, April 29 at 8pm
Closing Night Gala - Saturday, May 14 at 7pm
Show Times - Thursdays and Fridays at 8pm / Saturdays at 3pm and 7pm / Sundays (May 1 and 8) at 3pm

Admission - $20 adults/$10 children
Previews and Sundays - Half price!
Gala Performance and Party - $50 individual tickets

Tickets can be purchased online at www.ovationtix.com or www.immediatemedium.org.

created and performed by Lisa Clair, Max Dana, Siobhan Towey and Liz Vacco
original music by Alex Bleeker (Real Estate) and G. Lucas Crane (Woods)
production design by Maki Takenouchi, Jason Gandy & Lydia Fine
sound and video by Rob Ramirez

Publicity
Jillian Sweeney/Kristina Weise, (646) 470-7804
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This program is supported, in part, by our donors and by public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and the Nancy Quinn Fund, a project of A.R.T./New York.

In light of the recent presidential election in Haiti, the planned reconstruction in Haiti is at a critical point. 

To better understand the current landscape, the Haiti Assistance Task Force of the Public Service/Social Justice Committee will be presenting this panel discussion regarding development in Haiti in partnership with the Educational Programs Committee and the YWCA.  

The panelists, who are all practitioners in their respective fields, will provide an in-depth look at the successes and failures of development initiatives in Haiti, including microfinance ventures, private investment, U.S.-based nonprofit work, and sustainable design projects. The panelists are as follows: 

•  James Kurz, Senior Financial Analyst at Fonkoze
•  Alice Min Soo Chun, Chair and Co-Founder of Studio Unité 
•  Rene Aubry, Founder and CEO of Ciel Capital Partners
•  Joseph Makhandal Champagne, Executive Team Member of The Haiti Project, Global Syndicate, Mayor of Toms River, New Jersey, and President of the National Haitian-American Elected Officials Network

RSVP:  Please rsvp by April 27th to: http://haititaskforce.eventbrite.com/ 

Subway Directions: 2,3,4,5 to Nevins Street or B, D, N, Q, R, 2, 3, 4, 5 to Atlantic Avenue

Every Saturday in the Dwight Hall Common room, students are welcome to help volunteer with the Yale Children's Theater in the hands' on program from 10am - 2:30 pm. Please contact for more information. 

 Registration is now open for the 3rd annual Rock to Rock Earth Day Ride!  On Saturday, April 30th, explore New Haven's parks and neighborhoods. Support 12 great environmental organizations. Raise $40,000 in support for 1 great cause: a healthier, greener community. Learn more and register at www.rocktorock.org.